Policies towards youth

Hitler youth

• Aim was to prepare boys to be soldiers

• Wore military-style uniforms

• Activities centred on physical exercise and rifle practice

• Political indoctrination

League of German maidens

• Aim was to prepare girls for motherhood

• Wore uniform of blue skirt, white blouse and marching shoes

• Undertook physical exercise

• Mainly centred on developing domestic skills e.g. Sewing and cooking

Education

• History = rise of Nazi party

• Biology = taught Nazi racial theories of evolution in eugenics

• Race study = Aryan ideas and anti-Semitism

• PE = five one-hour sports lessons per week

• Chemistry and maths = downgraded in importance

Teachers

Had to join Nazi teachers’ association which vetted them for political and racial suitability